Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (…) est heureux de dévoiler le récipiendaire de la troisième édition du Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ, l’artiste NUMA AMUN, qui remporte ainsi ce prix bisannuel unique au Canada.

 

Découvrez la démarche profondément spirituelle de NUMA AMUN dans cette capsule vidéo réalisée à partir d’un entretien avec l’artiste qui a eu lieu à l’église du Très-Saint-Nom-de-Jésus dans Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. C’est d’ailleurs dans ce lieu richement ornementé de style romano-byzantin que ce dernier a présenté sa plus récente exposition. Ce reportage consacré à NUMA AMUN met en lumière sa technique de peinture, ses inspirations et des œuvres qui seront présentées au MNBAQ en 2019.

Jaune ombré, 2007-2009, encre de couleur peint sur papier

L’art mort, 2000, acrylique sur toile

La faisabilité du deuil ecclésiastique, 2002, acrylique sur toile

Violet, 2007-2009, encre de couleur peint sur papier

Lambrequin animé, 2003, acrylique sur toile, Context Gallery, 2010

NUMA AMUN, vit et travaille à Montréal.

BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE est une artiste belge, connue pour ses sculptures, ses dessins et ses installations, née à Gand en 1964.

HANS THOMA (Né le 2 octobre 1839 à Bernau (Forêt-Noire), Allemagne – décédé le 7 novembre 1924 à Karlsruhe, Allemagne à l’âge de 85 ans) était un peintre allemand dont le style évolua à partie des années 1880 vers une forme de naturalisme magique et fantastique, puisant dans la renaissance allemande.

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SASCHA SCHNEIDER (March 24, 2016)

‘La Veronica’, Olio su specchio, 98 X 73 cm ,2013. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Attributi iconografici di san Massimo d’Aveia martire. Cimasa per l’altare di san Massimo d’Aveia martire’, Olio su tela, 58 X 70 cm, 2011. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘La visione di san Giovanni a Patmos. La Donna vestita di sole’, Olio su tela, 325 X 180 cm, 2012. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Quum memoranda (Servo di Dio, Papa Pio VII Chiaramonti)’, Olio su tela, 90 X 70 cm, 2014. Roma, Fondazione Pio Alferano (Opera vincitrice del Premio Pio Alferano). Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Santa Thérèse di Lisieux’, Olio su tela, 90 X 70 cm, 2014. Ruvo di Puglia (BA), Collezione privata. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Santa Elisabetta della Trinità’, Olio su tela, 90 X 70 cm, 2016. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘San Pio X Pontefice Massimo’, Olio su tela, 90 X 70 cm, 2015. Bassano del Grappa (VI), Collezione Privata. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘San Biagio vescovo e martire’, Olio su tela, 216 X 143 cm, 2011. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘San Nicola di Bari schiaffeggia l’eresiarca Ario’, Olio su tela, 100 X 120 cm, 2016. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘San Nicola di Bari’, Olio su tela, 90 X 70 cm, 2016. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘San Francesco d’Assisi ricevuto da papa Innocenzo III’, Olio su tela, 199 X 165 cm, 2016. Trani, Chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Pio VI Pontefice Massimo’, Olio su tela, 90 X 70 cm, 2016. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Labano cerca gli idoli nel baule di Giacobbe’, Olio su tela, 119 X 151 cm, 2013. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Corredenzione’, Olio su tela, 80 x 100 cm, 2015. Bari, Collezione privata. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘La mano destra che sa cosa fa la sinistra’, Olio su tela, 40 X 70 cm, 2011

‘In hoc signo vinces. Il sogno di Costantino’, Olio su tela, 115 X 207 cm, 2015. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Il canto del tradimento – Il gallo di san Pietro Cimasa dell’altare di san Pietro’, Olio su tela, 59 X 80 cm, 2011. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

‘Il sogno di san Giuseppe’, Olio su tela, 207 X 155 cm, 2012. Image copyright © Archivio dell’Arte / Luciano Pedicini

GIOVANNI GASPARRO

GIOVANNI GASPARRO was born in Bari in 1983. He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2007, as a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Modica, with a thesis in art history on the Roman stay of Van Dyck. His Last Supper painting is exhibited in the film Saturno contro by Ferzan Ozpetek. The first solo exhibition in Paris is in 2009. In 2011, the Arcidiocesis of L’Aquila commissioned him 19 works of art between altar and altarpiece for the Basilica of San Giuseppe Artigiano (XIII sec.), damaged by the earthquake of 2009 , which constitute the largest painting cycle of sacred art made in recent years (…)

Merci Yvan Arseneault

ALFRED KUBIN was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. He is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism.

ALFRED LEOPOLD ISIDOR KUBIN
(April 10, 1877 – August 20, 1959, Autria)

Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake. The Other Side is his only literary work. Like Peake’s Gormenghast, it tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious. Or as Kubin himself called it, ‘a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us’. Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the artists and writers of the Expressionist generation. Franz Marc called it a magnificent reckoning with the 19th century and Kandinsky said it was almost a vision of evil, while Lyonel Feininger wrote to Kubin, “I live much in Pearl, you must have written it and drawn it for me.”

 

Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism and is noted for dark, spectral, symbolic fantasies, often assembled into thematic series of drawings. From 1906 until his death, he lived a withdrawn life in a small castle on a 12th-century estate in Zwickledt, Upper Austria.